I am very close to finding God.
The Good Parts: 1 Thessalonians
But we were gentle among you.1 Thess 2:7 For you yourselves have been taught by God to love one another; and indeed you do love all the brothers and sisters throughout Macedonia. But we urge you, beloved, to do so more and more.1 Thess 4:9-10 So then let us not die as others do, but… Continue reading The Good Parts: 1 Thessalonians
Martha
There is ALWAYS a need for a Martha. Things don't get done without Marthas. "LET'S PUT ON A SHOW!" You're gonna need a Martha.
God’s Love as My Love for My Cat
There's nothing that will ever make me stop loving Fosco. L i t e r a l l y nothing. He has pooped on the bathroom floor on ::more:: than one occasion, often out of spite, and Zach would only get maybe TWO accidents like that. There are conditions to unconditional love.
Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast
I approach religion as something I want to live with (and you will say, "No, I get it, but why?"), and you approach it as something you want to make sense of.
Interlude: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf
Please and thank you always write to me at mbevel at gmail dot com about Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf and also any other play in the history of plays.
Genesis 1:6-8 | What Does it Mean to Be Good?
What does it mean to find something good? I hadn’t even really thought about that question at all until I realized there are three places where God isn’t pleased. Not angry, necessarily, but not announcing that “it was good” either.
Genesis 1:1-2 | Something Out of Something
We have a chance to read this passage differently, this order out of chaos. We’re left, maybe, with creation out of something: out of the wild and waste. Out of Ocean. Out of whatever darkness is. We have to be willing to read with new eyes.
